press release
August 4 2014
The Soil Has The Answers
Water quality is a hot issue at present with Nick Smith and Fish and Game at loggerheads about who said what to whom and
how they said it.
The answer — very literally — lies in the soil. Farmers and growers of the Association of Biological Farmers are hosting
award-winning scientist Australia's Dr Christine Jones, known as the ‘Carbon Goddess’, at their Green Agriculture
Innovation Awards (GAIA) being held as twin events in Rotorua and Christchurch respectively on Wednesday and Friday this
week.
She’ll talk about the latest developments in biological soil management, which optimises fertility by minimising
interventions like chemicals and tillage, with the result that farm runoff is effectively eliminated and pasture life
extended in drought conditions
Dr Jones has a Community Fellowship Awards from Land and Water Australia for her immense ecological knowledge and
continuing efforts to better manage land, water and pasture. She will be presenting some striking research showing
fertility, pasture and crop yield improvements from a low-input biological approach
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